The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-26
POLIT[CSIN THEPULPIT,,
SOUTHERN r rnEsDYTEnIANs.

, ooU I1l EhN PHES I'd \ TEHIASS 3
Have a Warm Time Over tho Proposed
Union Of tho Two branches Of the
Churcl-Eidor Livingstone Roads tho 3
Riot Act = Some Sharp Hts.
sr. LOUIS, May 25.-The following Is an
epitome OF the speech made yesterday
afternoon in the Southern Presby yterian
Assembly by Colonel Livingstone, Of
Georgia, in which he not only spoke in
favor OF the majority report on Union OF
the two Assemblies. but handled DR..
smoot with bare knuckles. He said
Whom the majority made the report It
was out ol no disrespect for the fathers OF
the church, like DR.. Smoot. The speaker
admitted he had represented, his people
in the Legislature at home, but hc was
not talking as q politician. He was not a I.
politician. Dr.. Smooth epeech was made
up Of bloody shirt and an attack upon the
Methodist Board. He characterized Dr.. 1.
smoot as q natursl.born politician In the I
pulpit OF Christ. He said that Dr.. Smoot
had been mad ever since the Federal
army came into hia county in Kentucky,
and they made him step up every thirty
days and take the oath. They couldn't
truss him more than thirty days, Ever
since that time he had no use for anything
north Of Mason and Dixon'a line. Dr..
Smoot said be wouldn't go II the others !,
went. Tho speaker suggested rather
quantity that they ''let him stay. il,54sSy
10 wanted to know If there was any
politics In his predecessors address con,
cerning Wendell Phillips and Lloyd Gar.
rison. He wr..1efed II q Northern man +
ever used language more cutting to South Z
crn people than that WAS to Northern
people. smoot was different from Garri-
son. Garrison would say to Smoot:
Your rebellion caused all tho sorrow and 4
ruin" Smoot would say: t'"Woll, ycu \
led us to do it." The war was over, and
ite Issues should 10 buried forever and for
over. AS to cooperation, the speaker de- 4
clsred that Abraham armed his eeryants I.
and went down and helped Lot and 70. !
leased him and his family. They didn't
cooperate any more, because the town \
was burnt up and Lots wife was turned I
into pillar OF salt. Men were support
Ing the majority report who were born !.
farther down into the heart OF slavery and
the war than ever DR.. Smoot was. a
AS to the charge that the msjority had
dociored the figures, the speaker COM
p!etely overturned the proofs. It was nm.
fair to the Presbyteries which had not 4
been heara to Say they were not moving
in tho matter. The legal presumption \
was that the silence oi the Preebyfer;ea
mesnt their consent. There was no oueo. \
ton but that five spoke in favor OF it. The
others either cared nothing for it or fa-
vored 1t. AS to the charge that this
movement ought not to follow the busi-
ness men, "the children OF this world are I
wiser IN their generation than the chill
dren ol light" This Christ had said TO J.
certain people once. The trouble with
the Preebylerlan church was that there
had been too little business about it, The
business men were hard-headed and gen-
aible, and a church should have some Of !
their asnse. As to DR.. Smoot'e idea Of
sending missionaries to convert the New
Engianders irom their Unitarianism and
other isms," !" tho speaker eaid he would Z
like TO bs ono OF the missionaries. They;
might answer hin in some fashion sucn
as this Don't you think Southern
Presbyterlans had better go back and tend
to those millions Of niggers you have
down there 7" God never Intended sena- 5
ration OF his children. 81 / -.
The clause in the majority report es.
peciaily stipulated that the Southern
Church did not,Delieve in deliverauces on
politics. The Southern Church went out !!
because the Northern Assembly in 1861 S
III Philadelphia, had declared the citizsus
70 be under The Government Of the United
Statea, the Government de jacto and de lure. Z
and no member OF the church shonld
bear arms against it. II this cause wes
removed, then tho church could 90 back. +.
how many political deliverances had
ne Southern Church made +? MANY Of
them. The people OF Omaha had notified 4
this Assembly they would accept lust
what the Missouri Synod had adopted, /,
Or. Smoot had dug up the bloody shirt
and waved II, and rsked up every cruel
Thing the Northern Church had ever said.
Il VAS rot tair to make the Northern
Church OF to-day stand for the church Of
ten or fifteen or twenty years ago, It
Touiu have been taiIer to have takea
their later declarations as their expression
Of opinion. II the Assembly did not psy
more attention to The overtures now made
tho church would loss many border
Presbyteries. The whole matter Of church (
progress aud church growth had been
hindeTed by the two conflicting churchee
in tho field. In all other matters the is- {
cues and differences of the war were ,
being buried out OF sight and the Church
Of God should not be the last to harmon. 4
iza. = "a Z !, IA 5tzi3i.l7 ~
Tho Presbyterian General Assembly
South devoted the morning session to-day 4
to argument on the organic union. Elder
J. 7. Livingstone, Of Georgia, and Rev. J. !
II. Potts, Of Alabama, spoke in favor Of I
union with the Northern Church. w. H. :.
Parks, Of st. Louis, opposed it. The invi-
tation Of the Second Presbyterian Church,
Of Philadelphia, 10 the assembly to hold
tho naxs session in that city, and extend
ing their hospitality, was declined as this 4
assembly haA no church in Philadelphia,
but they resolved to hold the next session
in May, 1888, at Baltimore, and take q re- 4
cess on the fourth Thuraday in May and
proceed TO Philadelphia to assist in the
cele5saton OF the centennial anniversary
Of the Reformed Presbytery Of Americas.
| Good Templars' Convention.
SARATOGA, N. Y, May 25-Lls. evening
the Right Worthy Grand Lodge Of Good
Tcmplars went into committee Of the
whole on tho question OF reunion between
the Right Worthy Grand Lodge OF the /
world, or the "English secedere," }" and the
Right Worthy Grand Lodge.
A series Of eight resolutions, containing
the p.oyisions iof an ama|gamssion, were
unsnimously adopted, and q committee to
confer with Engliah body composed Of
Past G.. 9. Temp!ars Chase, Of Psunsylva-
mia; Hastings, Of Wisconsin; Hickman,